Sunday, April 23, 2017

Breaking: Largest Armada Of Naval Ships Since WWII

Breaking: Largest Armada Of Naval Ships Since
WWII

By de Andréa

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE
BOTTOM LINE’

Posted April 23, 2017

Two more Aircraft Carrier groups will join the US expedition to North
Korea

Everyone
has been talking for the past week about the aircraft
carrier strike group President Donald Trump dispatched toward the Korean peninsula as
a warning to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, but Kim seems not to have
gotten the message thus far, considering his grand military parade and
continued provocative missile launches.

But
according to a report from South Korean media outlet Yonhap, there are rumors circulating that
Trump just upped the ante by ordering two more carrier strike groups deployed
to the tense region, placing a tremendous amount of air and naval firepower at
the disposal of the military’s regional commander.

A
roughly translated version of the article, which cites South Korean government
officials who claimed knowledge of the deployment orders, stated that in
addition to the USS Carl Vinson, already steaming toward Korea from Singapore,
the carrier strike groups of the USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz were also
ordered to head for the region.

That
shouldn’t be too difficult for the Reagan strike group, whose home port is in
Japan, but it may take a bit more time for the Nimitz group, as it is
reportedly wrapping up final pre-deployment assessments off the coast of
Oregon, according to the Nimitz News, the carrier’s in-house media
outlet.

To
be sure, there is little in the way of confirmation of these reports from the
American media, and the Trump administration has made it clear repeatedly that
it isn’t going to discuss strategy or asset movementsahead of time, lest it give the
enemy a premature heads-up regarding impending operations.

That
said, if the rumors of additional carrier strike group deployments to the
Korean peninsula are indeed true, the size of the “big stick” Trump is showing Kim Jong Un to deter him from his would-be
nuclear ambitions just got a lot bigger and vastly more lethal.

It
is worth noting that aside from regular training operations, this is believed to
be the first time this many carrier strike groups have been deployed to the
same area since World War II, should the deployments in fact take place — a
significant policy shift in light of the previous administration’s non-deployment
of similar assetsover the same time-frame.

THE BOTTON LINE:Reminiscent of the Kennedy
– Khrushchev standoff that nearly brought America into
a nuclear war with Russia in the Cubin missile crises. We are now in a nuclear standoff with North
Korea. The difference is the question:
Does North Korea have the nuclear capability of launching a nuclear warhead and
hit something like South Korea or Japan or even the U.S. West Coast? Or’ will we wait until they do? Either way,
this my friend, is a serious situation.
A sticky wicket, as the Brits would say.

Thanks
for listening. Now go do the right thing and fight for freedom.

-
de Andréa

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